Un article de Frederik Pohl

[jerome]

Voici un article de Frederik Pohl sur son blog nommé : My Worst Prediction Ever: Corporate Leisure Time

Voici le début :

"In the days when I was making much of my living from lecturing, I was generally careful not to make specific technological predictions about the future, particularly the easy ones — faster computers, cures (or ameliorations) for most diseases. I did let myself talk about social trends, though, and one trend I thought I had spotted was what I called the growth of corporate leisure time.

See, I had observed that as people became more prosperous they, or at least some of them, began to be willing to devote some of their recently acquired leisure time to doing things for people who needed help. They might help hand out Christmas baskets for the poor in the holiday season, or volunteer to drive the destitute to their doctors’ appointments, when they could get any. Whatever. It did happen. I saw it. And if this were true for individual humans, why shouldn’t corporations do the same?
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